Posting these videos is piracy. School board meetings are property of the district and are NOT TO BE REPRODUCED without permission in writing from the district, these will need to be taken down or legal action may occour i do agree that there should be a way to watch video online from DCAT/the schoolboard meetings though
Section II C item 1 states that anyone may record a oublic meeting, it does not state that they may record someone elses recording. recording and posting the meeting which are produced bu the school district is piracy. if you want to post the meetings, come record them yourself instead of stealing other peoples work. im sure if you write or call the school, you can get a copy of the meeting.
Well, there is no policy governing this. Second, there is no copyright or privacy notice and/or clause labeled on the DVDs in the libraries or any test posting on DCAT showing that this is "piracy". If the school board wishes to address this, then they should take it upon themselves to create a policy. Because these are public meetings and the public has a right to know, then a limitation of those rights can come under fierce scrutiny as well as possible 1st amendment violations.
US Copyright gives certain rights to the creator of a given work on how that work is published, distributed, or altered in a derivative work. Unless you are the creator of the video or have had the rights transferred to you by the creator, you have no claims, legal or otherwise.
If you are the rights holder of the video, there is a clear procedure in section 512 of US Copyright law detailing how you may claim infringement of your rights and have the video taken down. Section 512 also details the legal ramifications for making false claims of copyright.
To All --
The NH Right to Know law II.C.1.c makes it clear that anyone may record a public meeting. Furthermore, II.B.4 states that the public body may provide for broader public access to meetings and records and the School Board has done so with allowing live broadcasting of their meeting over NH Public Television. So I hope we can all agree that the School Board has no issue with the viewing or broadcasting of this video of their meeting.
The answer to whether copyright infringement has occurred lies solely with the holder of the copyright on this video. Since that person or entity has not expressly extended or withheld permission to rebroadcast their creation, we do not know if infringement has occurred. It seems reasonable to expect that since the creator has made their work available in multiple public formats -- broadcast on NH Public Television, available on DVD in the Durham Public Library -- that he/she would not object to it being presented here.
Until the copyright holder identifies themselves and requests the videos be removed, they should stay up. The person that created these videos spent their time and talent creating a documentary video of a public event and published that video in multiple formats available for public consumption -- it seems reasonable to assume they wished for their work to be made as accessible as possible to the public as was done by the blog author in this post. If this is not the case, then I hope the video creator will let that be known and that the blog author will respect those wishes and remove the video.
Posting these videos is piracy. School board meetings are property of the district and are NOT TO BE REPRODUCED without permission in writing from the district, these will need to be taken down or legal action may occour
ReplyDeletei do agree that there should be a way to watch video online from DCAT/the schoolboard meetings though
Excuse me but these are PUBLIC meetings. Please read the NH Right to Know law for more info...
ReplyDeleteSection II C item 1 states that anyone may record a oublic meeting, it does not state that they may record someone elses recording. recording and posting the meeting which are produced bu the school district is piracy. if you want to post the meetings, come record them yourself instead of stealing other peoples work. im sure if you write or call the school, you can get a copy of the meeting.
ReplyDeleteWell, there is no policy governing this. Second, there is no copyright or privacy notice and/or clause labeled on the DVDs in the libraries or any test posting on DCAT showing that this is "piracy". If the school board wishes to address this, then they should take it upon themselves to create a policy. Because these are public meetings and the public has a right to know, then a limitation of those rights can come under fierce scrutiny as well as possible 1st amendment violations.
ReplyDeleteTo the first Anonymous poster --
ReplyDeleteUS Copyright gives certain rights to the creator of a given work on how that work is published, distributed, or altered in a derivative work. Unless you are the creator of the video or have had the rights transferred to you by the creator, you have no claims, legal or otherwise.
If you are the rights holder of the video, there is a clear procedure in section 512 of US Copyright law detailing how you may claim infringement of your rights and have the video taken down. Section 512 also details the legal ramifications for making false claims of copyright.
To All --
The NH Right to Know law II.C.1.c makes it clear that anyone may record a public meeting. Furthermore, II.B.4 states that the public body may provide for broader public access to meetings and records and the School Board has done so with allowing live broadcasting of their meeting over NH Public Television. So I hope we can all agree that the School Board has no issue with the viewing or broadcasting of this video of their meeting.
The answer to whether copyright infringement has occurred lies solely with the holder of the copyright on this video. Since that person or entity has not expressly extended or withheld permission to rebroadcast their creation, we do not know if infringement has occurred. It seems reasonable to expect that since the creator has made their work available in multiple public formats -- broadcast on NH Public Television, available on DVD in the Durham Public Library -- that he/she would not object to it being presented here.
Until the copyright holder identifies themselves and requests the videos be removed, they should stay up. The person that created these videos spent their time and talent creating a documentary video of a public event and published that video in multiple formats available for public consumption -- it seems reasonable to assume they wished for their work to be made as accessible as possible to the public as was done by the blog author in this post. If this is not the case, then I hope the video creator will let that be known and that the blog author will respect those wishes and remove the video.
Anonymous poster Number 1:
ReplyDeletePiracy is theft on the high seas. What you're thinking of is file sharing.
i just want a piece of pie.
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